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I woke up to find that the temperature had fallen twenty degrees overnight and that maggots were dripping from the ceiling. It could only mean one thing: Riot Fest. This is the tenth anniversary and Riot Fest found ten bands to play one of their iconic albums in its entirety. And GWAR brought cake for everyone […]

Three Colors: Blue begins in abstraction. Swells of thick sound, punctuated by moments of gasping air, ride alongside a tire pushing against pavement. Hands out of a car window, grasping bright blue foil blowing in the wind. Faces washed over by headlights. A young man’s face, waiting eagerly for the next car’s potential ride, framed against thick fog. […]

Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent. The history of mental illness is a fickle one. Like the patients in its asylums’ small cells, it tosses and turns between the external and […]

TL; DR. Too long; didn’t read. TL; DR. I am fascinated by the abbreviation. On first thought it seems altogether reasonable: sometimes people ramble incoherently, go on for too long. You start reading an article and, at some point, deem it a waste of your precious time. But here’s the interesting part: with the TL; […]

Been a while since we checked in. This is because we’ve scaled things back a bit and keeping our activities on slow cook. So you’ll notice that we’ve made some small tweaks around here. Look around and let us know what you think. And while you’re here, check out The Weird World of LSD.